THE EAGLE.
He clasps the crag with hooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring’d with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
—Alfred Tennyson.
GREAT-TAILED GRACKLE.
(Quiscalus macrourus.)
½ Life-size.
FROM COL. CHI. ACAD. SCIENCES